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A-8 THE TIMES Wednesday. February 5, 1986 NS.L. THE COMPLETE WEATHER REPORT THE MAP Rain changing to 20 The Forecast for 7 a.m. EST, Feb. People If the rain doesn't continue, it will because the precipiation will be coming down as snow.

The rain could change to snow tonight as the lows reach the lower 30s. The winds should be from the northeast at 5 to 10 miles per hour. More of the same is expected for Thursday. There is a 40 percent chance for rain or snow. The highs should be in the mid 30s.

More snow is expected for Friday and Sunday, with Saturday to be colder under partly cloudy skies. The National Weather Service predicts snow for Thursday from the Indianapolis Jackson.Ms. Jacksonville Juneau Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach 57 50 Milwaukee 67 60 Mpls-StPaul 80 54 Nashville 37 27 New Orleans 40 34 New York 64 39 69 52 Oklahoma 76 53 Omaha 64 55 Orlando 67 59 Philadelphia 75 71 Phoenix Temperatures 10 LARGEST STOCKING DEALER IN 100 DIFFERENT SIZES IN QIM6DEUUG An Andersen9 Come tee 35 33 32 25 71 58 77 60 38 34 51 43 City 64 43 34 29 80 60 36 34 62 45 Albany 27 20 Charleston. C. 74 60 Detroit 36 34 Albuquerque 49 31 Charleston.W.V.

68 60 El Paso 53 38 Anchorage 28 13 Charlotte, N.C. 71 54 Evansville 62 52 Atlanta 70 60 Cincinnati 61 56 Fairbanks 07 -01 Atlantic City 42 38 Cleveland 58 36 Flagstaff 40 11 Baltimore 40 36 Columbia.S.C. 76 51 Grand Rapids 33 33 Birmingham 74 60 Columbus.Oh. 59 54 Greensboro.N.C. 59 44 Bismarck 30 22 Concord.N.H.

26 23 Hartford 27 25 Boise 47 30 Dallas-Ft Worth 71 50 Helena 43 24 Boston 34 33 Denver 46 28 Honolulu 82 57 Buffalo 38 32 Des Moines 35 32 Houston 73 54 STARTS Mill A BEAUTIFUL IDEA! bay or bow window can add to the charm and value of your home. our Andersen window display. It could give you a beautiful idea. 1 i BM LAKE CO. STOCK WE OFFER THE LARGEST DISCOUNT PRICE US BEFORE YOU BUY Ooon Monday thru Friday Lake candidates file for office Actor Harrison Ford and Australian director Peter Weir, who last worked together on the movie "Witness," have started filming in Belmopan, Belize for "The Mosquito Coast." The movie is based on the best selling novel by Paul Theroux, about an eccentric New England inventor who moves his family to the isolated, rugged Mosquito coast of Honduras.

Ballerina Dame Margot Fon-teyn will come out of retirement and perform the non-dancing role of the Queen in "The Sleeping Beauty" in Miami. Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet will perform the ballet on Feb. 18 and 19. Dame Margot, 66, last danced at a gala in her honor at the Royal Opera House in 1980. Italian director i I I i i "Ginger and Fred," about Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, is to open this month's annual Berlin Film Festival.

More than FELLINI 100 films are scheduled for viewing in the 10-day festival, but only 25 have been entered into competition for its Golden Bear award, organizers say. Don Johnson of NBC's "Miami Vice" and Patti D'Arbanville, mother of his 3-year-old son, Jesse, have ended their long relationship, his publicist says. Publicist Lili Ungar said Tuesday she would not comment further. Johnson lives in Miami, where the hit detective series is filmed, and Miss D'Arbanville lives in Los Angeles. a Broadway-bound comedy starring Carol Channing and Mary Martin, got off to a stumbling start in Southern California, where many critics panned the play.

The play, which opened Sunday night at the Ahmanson Theater, is directed by Clifford Williams and written by James Kirkwood, coauthor of "A Chorus Line." It is scheduled to continue here through March 22 and head to New York City in June. "Legends!" is about two fading screen queens who get an offer to make a comeback in a Broadway play. But they have to work together, and they hate each other. Reviewers called the play racist, with "almost no plot, no development of its basic premise and little originality," and took note of a male striptease, a scene in which the two women unknowingly eat hashish-laced brownies and Miss Martin's character exposing her buttocks to a photographer. Almanac Today is the There are 329 36th day of 1986.

days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On Feb. 5, 1971, Apollo astronauts Alan B. Shepard 14 Jr. i FORD snow southeast Plains to the Midwesi.

nam will be spreading from the Carohnas to New Jersey. Snow flurries are expected for the central and northern mountains. Today's satellite picture shows precipitation producing clouds stretching from the lower Mississippi Valley northward through New England. A band of rain snow clouds reaches from Nebraska westrward through Eastern Wyoming and Colorado. TUESDAY'S TEMPERATURES: Hifih 37; Low, 33.

THURSDAY'S FORECAST: High, 36; Low 30. SUNSET TONIGHT: 5:11 p.m. SUNRISE THURSDAY: 30 23 50 40 32 27 36 33 31 30 41 35 52 37 38 37 56 39 34 32 Located 3 miles South of Rt. 0 on U.S. 41 In St.

John, IN 3:30 pm am to 4 pm Sunday 365-8585 candidate." Across the state, filing for various national and local races opened today. Would-be office holders can begin submitting declarations of candidacy to their local county clerk or to the secretary of state in Indianapolis. Candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, state offices, the Indiana General Assembly, county judge and prosecutor file with the secretary of state.

The deadline for filing the declaration for the May 6 primary is noon, March 7. Their meeting is set for March 4, about one month before the final VA contract is awarded. Stowell said Forsythe also was presented a revised timetable for the VA bid process. "The VA has fallen behind," he said. The VA's office of construction should have recommended its best and final offer to the department of medicine and surgery Monday, but Stowell said the VA has just begun its bid refinement process.

Stowell said letters were sent to pre-qualified bidders Tuesday, advising them to submit their best and final offer by Feb. 14, so in essence, the project has been pushed back about two weeks. Stowell said the bid will either be announced April 4 or later that month. Even though the bid may be pushed back, Stowell said the occupancy date remains: Dec. 1, 1987.

ByDebra Gruszecki hometown DiCiccio said it's the second time in as many years that Jesse Bernardi, 56, who now lives in neighboring Ohioville, gave money to the town. Last year, Bernardi gave $1,000 each to the police department and the library Katich asked that the county not exercise an informal policy in which it could defer special zoning requests in light of pending annexation. "Deferral may kill the project," he said, adding: "The project deserves attention on its own merit, without consideration of what Crown Point will do in the next week or the next month." After the meeting, Fedorchak said he will cooperate with Crown Point once annexation is official. He said he has signed no contract for utility service from Merrillville Conservancy or Gary-Hobart and arranged a meeting to discuss Crown Point utility service with the city's planning director. Fedorchak refused to name individuals involved in the South Broadway Development saying only that he is the principal investor.

He also maintained he has no knowlege of, or ties with, the land owner. Sources have told The Times the landowner is Steven D. Sohaki, a reputed gambling-machine racketeer in Lake County. Fedorchak also said Sohaki is not an investor in his corporation. "Don't continue this scandal.

There's no need for it," Fedorchak said. Sohaki's "been dealing with 20 years of B.S. and he's not an investor in this project. He may own the land, but it doesn't matter zoning has nothing to do with who owns the land." 7 am to Saturday 7 Closed positive-type campaign, it's important to get started as early as possible." Ralph Grothaus, another Republican seeking the nomination in the May 6 primary, said, "It's necessary to show the people of Lake County the Republican Party is alive and vibrant. The best way to do that is to get down there when the doors open up and be the first to file on the first day." Rudolph Clay, the county recorder.

filed as a Democratic candidate for First District county commissioner. He said early filing "shows you are a bona fide serious Forsythe From Page One day, but must comply with a 60-day remonstrance period before annexation takes effect. Meanwhile, Merrillville architect Gerald M. Fedorchak, who has submitted a bid to the VA for a 6.9 acre parcel of land falling within new annexation boundaries, received approval for a special zoning request by Lake County Plan Commission. The county maintains it is obligated to act on such a request until annexation is enacted.

Fedorchak's development plans show that utility service could be provided by MCD and Gary-Hobart Water Corp. Fedorchak has said he would entertain bids from utilities both outside and inside of Crown Point, and has signed no contrac-tural agreement at this point with competing utilities. The zone request still must meet Lake County Board of Zoning Appeals approval. Retiree helps MIDLAND. Pa.

(AP) A retired steelworker with a soft spot for his hometown donated $500 each to the library and volunteer fire department. Officials in this struggling borough say it couldn't have come at a better time. Plan From Page One jurisdiction in power," Fedorchak said. "Right now, that is unicorporated Lake County." Katich said Fedorchak's bid and others have "pre-qualified" for the VA nod. The "best-and-final" offer should be announced April 4.

By then, Katich said, the bidder must prove he has proper zoning, utilities and financing. Merrillville Conservancy District and Gary-Hobart Water Corp. have agreed to provide utilities. And Fedorchak has formed South Broadway Development Corp. investment group to secure financing.

The only qualification remaining is proper zoning, Katich said. To get that, the Fedorchak petition still must meet Lake County Board of Zoning Appeals approval. That board meets March 4. Assuming Crown Point annexation won't be effective for 60 days and isn't blocked by a remonstrance, Katich said Fedorchak still lacks assurance Crown Point would approve his rezone request if a petition were submitted to the city. "What we do know is sometime in April we may be asked to sign documents," Katich said.

"We don't want Crown Point to feel slighted. We just want to develop land we think the federal government wants very much." tywide offices. "Maybe it's superstition," said Lake County Sheriff's department Lt. John Lach, a Democratic candidate for county sheriff. "Maybe I feel if I file first I'll come in first in the election." "It's tradition," said county clerk candidate Robert Antich, a Gary Democrat now serving on the Calumet Township Advisory Board.

"But it's as much for the press coverage as anything." Republican sheriff candidate Robert Malizzo said, "We just want people to know we're in the race. When you run a $2.9 billion over the next two years. Missing from the president's budget was a proposal advanced by his budget office last December to sell the Federal Housing Administration. However, Reagan's budget would reduce funding for the federal mortgage insurance program by $476 million in 1987 and Reagan said his administration would "develop plans during the next year for turning the entire FHA program over to the private sector." The budget repeated Reagan's 1985 attempt to terminate federal subsidies for Amtrak and to abolish the Small Business Administration, urban development grants and the direct loan program of the Export-Import Bank. Reagan's budget would cut Medicare the federal health care program for the elderly by $4 billion in 1987, partly through an increase in premiums by 90 cents a month for individuals and by boosting the deductible from the current $75 to $100.

It would also cut the overall amount the government spends on Medicaid, the state-federal program for health care for the poor, by $1.3 billion. The budget also allows for a 3.7 percent cost-of-living increase for the nation's Social Security recipients next Janaury, as repeatedly promised by the president. The president's defense request totals $274.3 billion in actual outlays, up 6.2 percent or $15.9 billion from current levels. The budget also calls for giving the Pentagon an even larger increase in budget authority, which includes money for long-term buying. It would rise $33.2 billion, or 11.9 percent, from current spending.

If the convention concept is approved, Pastrick said, it's likely the local precinct organizations would have caucuses of their own in anticipation of the gathering. There are 505 Democratic precinct committeemen and an equal number of vice committeemen. Pastrick said countywide slating was not proposed as a direct result of the recent U.S. District Court convictions of Sheriff Rudy Bartolomei and Lake County Court Judges Orval Anderson and Steven Bielak, all Democrats. But one Democrat, who asked not to be named, said Pastrick was "very concerned" about the image of the party after those convictions and wanted a "squeaky clean" slate to run in the primary.

"He (Pastrick) just doesn't want anyone on the ticket that might be getting indicted," the source said. "There's a very real concern that the voters have already been turned off by these guys going to jaU and business as usual just won't make it anymore." By MARK KIESLING Times Staff Writer CROWN POINT From the familiar to the politically anonymous, they came to the clerk's office this morning. Filing for county offices officially opened at 8:30 a.m. and scores of people, candidates and their supporters crowded the hallway outside the Voters Registration office in the Lake County Government Center. The mystique of being the first to file had attracted candidates for various coun- Budget From Page One ing those five years, defense outlays would increase by 37.8 percent.

The budget would slash, freeze in place or eliminate scores of civilian programs while granting a small, $94-million increase in funding to the nation's space program. It would knock a million college students off aid rolls, cut Medicare and Medicaid programs and recycle many of the program eliminations sought unsuccessfully by the president last year. Although Reagan, in his State of the Union message on Tuesday night, described the defense increases as "the bare minimum," the plan ran into opposition in Congress even in advance of its submission. The budget also calls for selling off a variety of federal assets and properties, called "privatization" by the administration, including the Bonneville Power Administration and various outstanding government loans, which would be sold to financial institutions at a discount. The president's budget states that the sale of Bonneville power and four other power marketing administrations, in the West, the Southwest, the Southeast and Alaska, would bring the government $12.7 billion over the next five years.

In all, 100 hydroelectric dams are operated by these agencies, but the administration plan would retain government title to the dams themselves while selling the transmission and power generation systems. The proposal also advocates selling oil fields owned by the government at Elk Hills, and Teapot Dome, for Lake From Page One will mean that candidates won't kill each other off or go broke running in the primary," Pastrick said. That "traditional way of doing business, Pastrick said, "just isn't going to fly anymore." Pastrick said the convention would be a modified version of the slating process now used by Marion County Democrats. "This probably would have been decided Monday, but there are some questions still to be resolved," Pastrick said. One question is whether votes at the convention would be weighted to insure that the slating process would be "equitable," he said.

Also to be decided is whether the slating would involve just county candidates or also would take in city, town or township candidates. Pastrick said those modifications will be ready for approval by the central committee in about a week. and Edgar D. Mitchell landed on the moon. Onthisdate: In 1631, the man who would found Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and his wife, arrived in Boston from England.

In 1783, Sweden recognized the independence of the United States. In 1881, Phoenix, was incorporated. In 1917, Congress passed, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, an immigration act severely curtailing the influx of Asians. Also in 1917, Mexico's constitution was adopted. Thought for Today: "We have to live today by what truth we can get today, and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood." William James, American philosopher (1842-1910)..